Annual Meeting Abstracts

Links for the abstracts for the annual meeting appear below. To see the abstract of a paper to be delivered at the annual meeting, click on the abstract's title. To find a particular abstract, use the search field below. You can also click on the column headers to alter the order in which the information is sorted. By default, the abstracts are sorted by the number of the session and the order in which the papers will be presented. Please note the following apparent anomalies: Not all sessions and presentations have abstracts associated with them. Panels in which the first abstract is listed as .2 rather than .1 have an introductory speaker.

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Session/Paper Number Session/Panel Title Title Name Annual Meeting
51.4 Dido in and after Vergil “Dido Docta: A Scholarly Revision of Aeneid 4 in the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri” Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne 149
51.7 Dido in and after Vergil "Heavy Metal Dido: Heimdall’s 'Ballad of the Queen'" Lissa Crofton-Sleigh 149
69.1 Porphyry the Polymath Personal Knowledge in Porphyry’s Thought: The Epistemological Role of Experience” Aaron Johnson 149
18.3 Foreign Policy How Odious was the Athenian Tribute System? Aaron Hershkowitz 149
37.4 After the Ars: Later Ovid Somnium Ovidi: Dreams and the Metamorphoses Aaron Kachuck 149
73.4 Augustan Rome Remembering Marcellus in The Poetry and Landscape of Augustan Rome Aaron M. Seider 149
27.4 Elegiac Desires Horace, Cinara, and the Elegiac Discourse of Desire Aaron Palmore 149
55.1 Rhythm and Style Meter and Voice in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus Abigail Akavia 149
19.5 The Politics of Linguistic Metaphors in Latin Words as Citizens in Romulus’s Asylum Adam Gitner 149
Ancient MakerSpaces: Digital Tools for Classical Scholarship (all-day workshop Saturday January 6) How to use the PeriodO gazetteer of period definitions: browsing, submitting, and referencing authoritative period definitions Adam Rabinowitz 149
54.5 Ritual and Religious Belief For the wheel’s still in spin: the evolution of the Skira festival in Classical Athens Adam Rappold 149
26.5 New Approaches to the Homeric Formula “Intraformularity” in epos Adrian Kelly 149
82.3 The Body and its Travails Making Sense of Plato’s Taste Afroditi Manthati Angelopoulou 149
53.4 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Michael Serveto vs. John Calvin: a Deadly Conflict Albert Baca 149
38.5 Style and Rhetoric Cupid’s palace in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: An unnoticed reenactment of the prologue’s ‘poetics of seduction’ Aldo Tagliabue 149
19.4 The Politics of Linguistic Metaphors in Latin Squaring Off: Boxing as a Metaphor for the Politics of Virgilian Poetry Alexander Forte 149
24.4 Professional Matters at Religiously Affiliated Institutions Presentation #4 Alexander Loney 149
32.5 Greek and Latin Linguistics Greek Etymology in the 21st century Alexander Nikolaev 149
4.4 Creating Audiences in Didactic Poetry Teaching without text: Didaxis and media in Hor. Serm. 2.3 Alexander Schwennicke 149
24.5 Professional Matters at Religiously Affiliated Institutions Presentation #5 Alexander Sens 149
79.2 Drama and the Religious in Ancient Greece Performing Archaic Ethics and Religion in Sophoclean Tragedy Alexandre Johnston, 149
10.5 Visions of Ancient Cities... The City Gate and Cityscape: Fanum Fortunae, the Arch of Augustus, and the Roman City Alexandria Yen 149
10.3 Visions of Ancient Cities... Mt. Argaios in Cappadocia: Reception of Sacred Mountain in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods Alexis Belis 149
17.3 Hellenistic Poetry in its Cultural Context The Dedication of a Hetaera and Poetic Program: Layering of Sapphic and Homeric Allusion in an Epigram of Leonidas of Tarentum Alissa A. Vaillancourt 149
25.2 Slavery and Sexuality in Antiquity Dangerous Liaisons: Sex, Slavery, and Violence in Classical Athens Allison Glazebrook 149
55.4 Rhythm and Style Evidence from Aristophanes for the Language and Style of Euripides Almut Fries 149
38.4 Style and Rhetoric The Agency of Style: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Sappho and Pindar Alyson Melzer 149
3.2 Herculaneum: New Technologies and New Discoveries in Art and Text Beyond the Salutatio: Looking at Archaeological and Literary Evidence for the Tablinum in the Houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum Ambra Spinelli 149
55.2 Rhythm and Style Dinner Bells and War Drums: Dactylic Hexameter in Old Comedy Amelia Margaret Bensch-Schaus 149
6.2 Medicine and Disease in Galen Conflict, Constraint, and the Physical Voice in Galen Amy Koenig 149
47.2 Reception Plinian themes in Italo Calvino’s 'Cosmicomiche', 'Città Invisibili' and 'Palomar' Amy Lewis 149
1.5 Classics and Social Justice First Do No Harm: Responsible Outreach and Community Engagement Amy Pistone 149
28.3 Didactic Poetry Hesiod’s Two Plows: Materiality and Representation in Works and Days Andre Matlock 149
2.2 Classical Reception Studies Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations of the Classics in the works of two mulatto writers in Brazil Andrea Kouklanakis 149
23.2 The Sounds of War What Brought the Walls of Jericho Down? Andreas Kramarz 149
75.1 Winning the People Spoils from Hera? Fulvius Flaccus at Cape Lacinium and Political Competition in Mid-Republican Rome Andreas Bendlin 149
77.2 Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt New Old Horoscopes Andreas Winkler 149
48.2 Bloody Excess: Roman Epic Hannibal's Bloody Homecoming in Silius' Punica Andrew McClellan 149
36.5 Texts and Contexts: Learning from History Cassius Dio's depiction of Septimius Severus: context and implications Andrew Scott 149
78.4 Lucan after Deconstruction Pompey’s Groan: Collective Heroism in Lucan’s 'Bellum Civile' Andrew Zissos 149
35.4 The Art of Praise: Panegyric and Encomium in Late Antiquity Celestial Celebrity: The Multifaceted Fama of Jerome’s Epistles Angela Kinney 149
20.4 The Classics Tuning Project Presentation of sample materials in the online repository Angela Ziskowski 149
32.1 Greek and Latin Linguistics Accent in Ennius' Hexameters Angelo Mercado 149
25.4 Slavery and Sexuality in Antiquity Recovering Publilius: Male Slave Rape and Social Reform Anise Strong 149
71.2 Lucretius: Author and Audience Empedocles in the Crossfire: Two Critical Subtexts in De Rerum Natura 1.716-733 Anna D. Conser 149
14.4 Approaching Risk in Antiquity Fortuna and Risk: Embodied Chance in the Roman Empire Anna Francesca Bonnell-Freidin 149
60.5 Translation and Transmission: Mediating Classical Texts in the Early Modern World Dialoguing with a Satirist: Lucian, Thomas More, and the Visibility of the Translator Anna Peterson 149
24.3 Professional Matters at Religiously Affiliated Institutions Presentation #3 Anne Groton 149
53.5 The World of Neo-Latin: Current Research Virbius in Pascoli's Laureolus Anne Mahoney 149
30.5 Material Girls Ritual Implements and the Construction of Identity for Roman Women Anne Truetzel 149